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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparison treating strings as zero integers Post 302701549 by tukuyomi on Sunday 16th of September 2012 02:48:19 PM
Old 09-16-2012
Try this :
Code:
#!/bin/bash

a='blah'
[ "$a" -eq 0 ] 2>/dev/null ; x="$?"     # Get error status to x variable
# As per man bash, if x greater than 1, $a is not an integer
if [ "$x" -gt 1 ]; then
        echo 'Bad integer'
fi

exit 0

 

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